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What do you get when you mix Finger Hands with a fidget spinner? If you're comedian Jesse McLaren you get an infinite loop of high fives. Take a look at the video below for instructions on building your own endless supply of self congratulation!   Click here to buy Finger Hands!  

David Wahl, our Director of Awesome, has worked at Archie McPhee for over 20 years. However, he also has a life away from us. In this case, The Humor Weakly interviewed him about all the people who park in front of his driveway.  It's a lot of people. And there's parking available not in front of his driveway, but they...

These items have been discontinued and are no longer for sale. If you have a great memory of them or would like us to bring them back, leave a comment on this post and let us know. We still have other Jane Austen products in stock. Get 'em while you can! Our first Jane Austen product was the original version of the Jane Austen Action Figure released...

In this episode of the Super Awesome Show, David Wahl and Shana discuss the latest Archie McPhee products including Go to Hell: the Game, Glow-in-the-Dark Finger Monsters, Glow-in-the-Dark Finger Hands, Pocket Rubber Chickens, Handisquirrel, the Emergency Replacement Sock and Cat Bowtie! 

When we put originally put our "No Soliciting" sign up on the door to our corporate offices we really didn't want any solicitors. Once we took a look at it, the sign just seemed so cold and so uncaring and so... not us. We decided to add an exception that reflected the business that went on inside our building. As you...

Amazing Hypno Glasses There has never been a shortage of mail order attempts to profit from the science of hypnotism. Our Amazing Hypno Glasses are just the latest in a long line of courses, objects and books aimed at allowing you to control all the people around you. It seems like, in the past, it was mostly about guys hypnotizing...

Last night the awesome Adam Savage posted a picture (by tweetsauce) of himself wearing our Finger Hands with an entirely appropriate E.E. Cummings quote from the poem somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond, "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands." Of course, the best celebrity Finger Hands picture of all time is "Weird Al" Yankovic advertising his...

One of the things we miss about getting most of our orders through the mail, back when we more of a catalog company, is the way customers used to decorate their envelopes. People didn’t just put a stamp on them and send them out, these folks spent some serious time and effort. While I was going through a box in our...

We at Archie McPhee are known for making joke and prank items, but we've also been know to pull a few fast ones ourselves. Over the years, we have posted some hilarious fake products on April Fools Day. Some were so ridiculous that we were surprised that people fell for them, while others received such overwhelming responses that we decided to...

These items have been discontinued and are no longer for sale. If you have a great memory of them or would like us to bring them back, leave a comment on this post and let us know. We still have other Edgar Allan Poe products in stock. Get 'em while you can! Edgar Allan Poe Products Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's greatest...